Blank Activity = Basic Activity in Android Studio 3.0+?

Question

Android

I'm learning android app development. Before that, usually all considered video tutorials or tasks from various sites began with the creation of a project based on Empty Activity.
Now I bought a book from Big Nerd Ranch on Android development, as amended in 2016. There, the very first application starts not with an Empty Activity, but with a Blank Activity. However, in my Android Studio 3.0+ Blank Activity is not suggested when creating a project. The only thing that looks like it is the Basic Activity.
The question is - in Android Studio 3.0+ Basic Activity - is it renamed the old Blank Activity or not? Because, when I started googling, I saw a lot of screenshots from previous years, where when creating a project in Android Studio, Blank Activity and Basic Activity were offered at the same time, which is not observed now ...

Answer 1

Throw away this book, it doesn't matter at all. Real developers don't use this wizard, learning it is pointless. Take a course on udacity, read developers.android.com